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Rivals Rundown Top 25 – Week 3

September 9, 2013September 9, 2013 benchwarmer42Leave a comment

Week 2 of the College Football Season is now in the books and with it a couple of our 25 teams, well for now. It’s hard to imagine that one loss could end your season or at least your ranking in our Top 25 but in the cases of USC, Texas, and Cincinnati, that’s exactly what we think happened. The worst of the three by far is USC, there is no way a team with that much talent should have such a bad offense, they could pathetic not being able to move the ball against what will prove to be a week Washington State team. Anyways, here we go with our Week 3 Top 25 teams of College Football. Come back later in the week when we will do our rewind and see how this Top 25 came together.

Current Rank	Previous Week	Team
1	1	Alabama Crimson Tide
2	2	Oregon Ducks
3	3	Clemson Tigers
4	4	Ohio State Buckeyes
5	5	Louisville Cardinals
6	6	Florida State Seminoles
7	7	Oklahoma State Cowboys
8	9	LSU Tigers
9	12	Georgia Bulldogs
10	11	Nebraska Cornhuskers
11	13	Stanford Cardinal
12	20	Michigan Wolverines
13	18	Texas A&M Aggies
14	29	Miami Hurricanes
15	16	Baylor Bears
16	17	Washington Huskies
17	26	UCLA Bruins
18	15	Oklahoma Sooners
19	19	Fresno State Bulldogs
20	14	Florida Gators
21	8	South Carolina
22	22	TCU Horned Frogs
23	23	Arizona State Sun Devils
24	30	Wisconsin Badgers
25	21	Northwestern
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26	27	Northern Ill Huskies
27	Unranked	Ole Miss Rebels
28	Unranked	Michigan State Spartans
29	Unranked	BYU Cougars
30	Unranked	Boise State Broncos

And now for the Rundown…

August 30, 2013 benchwarmer42Leave a comment

Rundown of Day 1 College Football 2013

August 30^th, 2013

The 2013 College Football season is in motion and we celebrated by having over 12 hours of fantastic football. Incase you missed some of the action or highlights here are our favorite plays, moments or factoids from the Kick-Off of the 2013 Season!

Puke and Rally!

This might be the best and worst moment of the year all wrapped into one. Jordan Matthews, one of the premier receivers in all of college football and an All-SEC player made a catch coming over the middle late in the Vandy-Ole Miss game, in doing so he got absolutely crushed with a hit on his side by Ole Miss backer Cody Prewitt. As Matthews tried to get to his feet he was visibly hurt and motioned to the sidelide to come out of the game. With Vandy in hurry-up mode and not using a timeout, he was able to stand, get to the line of scrimmage for the next play. After that play, it appeared he was going to make it to the sideline, stopped and went to one knee and that when the vomit came. After Matthews was done losing his lunch, the training staff took him to the sidelines where he got some water, waited and on the next play, in classic college style Matthews puked ‘n rallied to make a huge catch on 4^th and 18 and the game on the line. Now, the problem we have, is with all of the concern about player safety at all levels of football, the Vandy staff shoul’ve never let Matthews return so quickly. There is no way they could tell what condition the player was in. They needed to let him stay on the sideline for a couple more minutes, while they professional assessed his situation but they didn’t and so we got one of the top plays of the season on day one. Here is a link from SBNation showin the Rundown of this one! http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/30/4674808/jordan-matthews-catch

Was that the Hoosiers or the Ducks?

In a game that only fans in Indiana watched or crazies like us watch, Indiana put an Oregon style offensive beat down to Indiana State with a final score of 73-35. After the game, the Hoosier players were upset, why? Because Indiana was within 3 points of tying or beating the all-time record for points scored in school history of 76. Now, normally we don’t agree with running the score up but when you are that close to a historical marker, kick the field goal, tie the record and give your boys something they will have for some years to come in the record book. Now, Indiana is our pick for the surprise team in the country, picking them at 9 wins, now we know this was a gimmie game but the Indiana offense looked like an experienced one firing on all cylinders, now they just have to stay healthy.

USC Might be the Boys of Troy…

This one is hard for us to swallow, we picked USC to win the PAC 12 South division but if they can’t figure out how to run an offense they might be finishing behind ASU, UCLA, and Utah. Before we get carried away reading too much into an opening day road game to Hawaii, let’s look at the positives. USC’s defense will keep them in games, at the start of the game USC looked like a classic team that thought they were going to be able to show up and win the game, it took until almost halftime for them to figure out that they were going to have to take it and no one was giving them anything. The side of the ball that changed the game was defense, they started to make plays on the ball getting 4 int. and holding the Hawaii QB to 16-41. We liked USC because they have one of the easiest schedules in the PAC 12 but if they expect to compete we are guessing they are going to have to bring a lot more then what they had in Hawaii.

GAME OF THE NIGHT!!!

No it’s not Ole Miss-Vandy for all you East Coaster Bias out there, it was Fresno State-Rutgers without a shadow of a doubt. If you missed that game because your mom wouldn’t let you stay up past your bedtime, we urge you, if you are a real college football fan, to find that game and watch it start to finish. It had more lead changes than a NASCAR race and more scores than Robin Thicke. It was from start to finish one of the best games and even had a classic OT finish of the away team going for the two-points to win!!! Freakin Classic, a QB making his outside Heisman Campaign going 52-73 456 yards and 5 touchdowns, in Derek Carr and a Rutgers team saying we might have some holes but we can score too, Nova for Rutgers also threw for 5 TD’s. This game should be on ESPN Classic sometime soon, look it up and enjoy. We’re just thankful that Fresno made it out with the win, that game is going to do wonders for their confidence and we have them winning the Mountain West over Boise State…

Rivals Rundown 2013 College Football Preseason Top 30 Teams

August 29, 2013 benchwarmer42Leave a comment

Welcome to our inaugural Rivals Rundown Preseason Top 30 Teams!!! We are excited to present this the morning of the 2013 College Football Season. We have published our Top 5 teams for all of the BCS Conferences and this is the culmination of all that research. This is not our prediction of how the season will end, this is where we rank the teams as of today. Throughout the season we will visit our Top 30 and adjust as we see fit. Sometimes the whole thing might get flipped upside down but that’s College Football. Here is our Rivals Rundown 2013 College Football Preseason Top 30!!!

1. Alabama Crimson Tide
2. Oregon Ducks
3. Ohio State Buckeyes
4. Georgia Bulldogs
5. Clemson Tigers
6. Louisville Cardinals
7. Texas Longhorns
8. Nebraska Cornhuskers
9. Florida State Seminoles
10. Oklahoma State Cowboys
11. South Carolina Gamecocks
12. LSU Tigers
13. USC Trojans
14. Stanford Cardinal
15. Florida Gators
16. Texas A&M Aggies
17. Oregon State Beavers
18. TCU Horned Frogs
19. Boise State Broncos
20. Oklahoma Sooners
21. Michigan Wolverines
22. Northwestern Wildcats
23. Arizona State Sun Devils
24. Fresno State Bulldogs
25. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
26. Baylor Bears
27. Washington Huskies
28. Northern Illinois Huskies
29 Miami Hurricanes
30. Ohio Bobcats

AP PRESEASON TOP 25 RELEASED

August 17, 2013August 19, 2013 benchwarmer42Leave a comment

AP Top 25 Released with No Surprises
August 17, 2013

Today the AP Top 25 College Football poll was released with no surprises and very little to spark up new conversation.

1. Alabama
2012 Record: 13-1
Coaches Poll: 1
First Game: vs. Virginia Tech

2. Ohio State
2012 Record: 12-0
Coaches Poll: 2
First Game: Buffalo

3. Oregon
2012 Record: 12-1
Coaches Poll: 3
First Game: Nicholls State

4. Stanford
2012 Record: 12-2
Coaches Poll: 4
First Game: San Jose State

5. Georgia
2012 Record: 12-2
Coaches Poll: 5
First Game: at Clemson

6. South Carolina
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 7
First Game: North Carolina

7. Texas A&M
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 6
First Game: Rice

8. Clemson
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 8
First Game: Georgia

9. Louisville
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 9
First Game: Ohio

10. Florida
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 10
First Game: Toledo

11. Florida State
2012 Record: 12-2
Coaches Poll: 12
First Game: at Pittsburgh

12. LSU
2012 Record: 10-3
Coaches Poll: 13
First Game: vs. TCU

13. Oklahoma State
2012 Record: 8-5
Coaches Poll: 14
First Game: vs. Mississippi State

14. Notre Dame
2012 Record: 12-1
Coaches Poll: 11
First Game: Temple

15. Texas
2012 Record: 9-4
Coaches Poll: 15
First Game: New Mexico State

16. Oklahoma
2012 Record: 10-3
Coaches Poll: 16
First Game: Louisiana-Monroe

17. Michigan
2012 Record: 8-5
Coaches Poll: 17
First Game: Central Michigan

18. Nebraska
2012 Record: 10-4
Coaches Poll: 18
First Game: Wyoming

19. Boise State
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 19
First Game: at Washington

20. TCU
2012 Record: 7-6
Coaches Poll: 20
First Game: vs. LSU

21. UCLA
2012 Record: 9-5
Coaches Poll: 21
First Game: Nevada

22. Northwestern
2012 Record: 10-3
Coaches Poll: 22
First Game: at Cal

23. Wisconsin
2012 Record: 8-6
Coaches Poll: 23
First Game: UMass

24. USC
2012 Record: 7-6
Coaches Poll: 24
First Game: at Hawaii

25. Oregon State
2012 Record: 9-4
Coaches Poll: 25
First Game: Eastern Washington

[via http://www.cbssports.com]

Big Update of Preseason Predictions!

August 4, 2013September 7, 2013 benchwarmer42Leave a comment

The website www.stassen.com recently updated their database of preseason predictions from different websites and magazines! As we here at rivalsrundown.com our releasing our previews we will compare and eventually add ours to the table! Enjoy the update and get ready for kickoff!!!

National Top 25

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
1	Alabama	269	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
2	Oregon	247	4	3	8	5	5	2	2	2	1
3	Ohio State	243	2	2	5	2	2	6	10	4	3
4	Georgia	219	6	4	12	9	4	9	9	3	4
5	Stanford	209	3	7	2	11	3	–	3	5	5
6	South Carolina	197	9	5	3	14	11	13	14	6	7
7	Texas A&M	196	5	9	7	13	7	4	15	12	11
8	Clemson	183	7	6	9	15	8	15	20	8	8
9	Oklahoma State	177	11	16	6	8	19	3	6	15	18
10	Texas	171	18	18	14	4	13	11	8	10	12
11	Florida State	165	13	15	18	3	17	5	19	14	10
12	Louisiana State	160	8	12	16	17	18	–	4	7	6
13	Florida	157	12	13	4	18	10	–	5	13	16
14	Notre Dame	146	14	8	10	10	14	20	13	24	20
15	Louisville	144	10	10	11	7	12	–	–	9	14
16	Nebraska	120	21	21	21	16	9	8	21	11	–
17	Michigan	117	16	14	13	24	15	12	–	22	15
18	Boise State	116	17	11	15	–	6	–	12	–	9
19	Oklahoma	107	15	17	19	19	21	24	7	–	19
20	Texas Christian	98	22	20	–	21	16	18	11	20	22
21	Wisconsin	83	–	19	24	20	–	7	16	–	17
22	Southern Cal	66	25	–	–	6	–	10	17	–	–
23	Michigan State	46	20	–	–	23	–	17	18	–	–
24	Fresno State	42	–	22	–	22	22	–	–	16	–
25	Miami-Florida	38	24	–	22	25	–	21	25	–	–

Others receiving votes:

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
26	Northwestern	36	–	24	–	–	20	–	–	–	13
27t	Arizona State	33	–	23	–	–	–	16	–	–	21
27t	Baylor	33	19	–	17	–	–	–	–	–	24
29	Oregon State	29	–	25	23	–	–	25	22	–	–
30t	UCLA	27	23	–	20	–	–	–	–	–	23
30t	Virginia Tech	27	–	–	–	12	–	–	23	–	–
32	Georgia Tech	18	–	–	–	–	–	19	–	–	25
33	North Caroolina	17	–	–	–	–	–	14	–	–	–
34t	Kansas State	16	–	–	–	–	24	22	–	–	–
34t	Mississippi	16	–	–	25	–	–	–	–	21	–
36t	Cincinnati	8	–	–	–	–	–	23	–	–	–
36t	Northern Illinois	8	–	–	–	–	23	–	–	–	–
38	Penn State	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	24	–	–
39	Tulsa	6	–	–	–	–	25	–	–	–	–
40	unranked	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Notes:

Arena Fanatic did not list a team for #17-#19, #23, or #25, at time of this writing.

Conference predictions

AAC (former Big East)

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
1	Louisville	11½	1	1	1	1	1	2½	2	1	1
2	Cincinnati	23½	3	2	3	3	4½	1	1	2	4
3	Central Florida	31	4	4	5	2	2½	2½	3	5	3
4	Rutgers	32	2	3	2	5½	2½	8	4	3	2
5t	Connecticut	55½	6	6	4	7	8½	9	5	4	6
5t	Houston	55½	5	7	10	4	4½	6	6	8	5
7	Southern Methodist	59½	7	8	6	5½	7	4	9	6	7
8	South Florida	64	8	5	7	8	6	7	8	7	8
9	Temple	78½	10	10	8	10	8½	5	7	10	10
10	Memphis	84	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	9	9

Notes:

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Rutgers and Southern Methodist for 5th-6th place in the AAC.

USA Today predicted a tie between Central Florida and Rutgers for 2nd-3rd place in the AAC.

USA Today predicted a tie between Cincinnati and Houston for 4th-5th place in the AAC.

USA Today predicted a tie between Connecticut and Temple for 8th-9th place in the AAC.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Central Florida and Louisville for 2nd-3rd place in the AAC.

Atlantic Coast

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
Atlantic
1	Clemson	12	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	1
2	Florida State	15	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	2	2
3	N.C. State	33	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	4	3
4	Maryland	40	3	3	4	4	5	6	7	3	5
5t	Syracuse	48	6	6	5	7	5	3	3	7	6
5t	Wake Forest	48	7	5	6	4	5	7	5	5	4
7	Boston College	56	5	7	7	6	7	5	6	6	7
Coastal
1	Miami-Florida	16½	1	1	1	2	1½	3	2	2	3
2	Virginia Tech	21½	3	2	4	1	1½	4	1	3	2
3	Georgia Tech	23½	2	3	3	3½	4	2	4	1	1
4	North Carolina	28½	4	4	2	3½	3	1	3	4	4
5	Pittsburgh	49½	5	5	5	6	5½	7	5	5	6
6	Virginia	54½	6	6	6	6	5½	6	6	6	7
7	Duke	58	7	7	7	6	7	5	7	7	5

Notes:

Phil Steele predicted a three-way tie between Maryland, N.C. State, and Wake Forest, for 3rd-5th place in the ACC Atlantic division.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Georgia Tech and North Carolina for 3rd-4th place in the ACC Coastal division.

Phil Steele predicted a three-way tie between Duke, Pittsburgh, and Virginia, for 5th-7th place in the ACC Coastal division.

USA Today predicted a three-way tie between Maryland, Syracuse, and Wake Forest, for 4th-6th place in the ACC Atlantic division.

USA Today predicted a tie between Miami-Florida and Virginia Tech for 1st-2nd place in the ACC Coastal division.

USA Today predicted a tie between Pittsburgh and Virginia for 5th-6th place in the ACC Coastal division.

Big Ten

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
Leaders
1	Ohio State	10	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
2	Wisconsin	17	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2
3	Penn State	28	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3
4	Indiana	36	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	3	4
5	Purdue	44½	5	5	4	5	5½	5	5	5	5
6	Illinois	53½	6	6	6	6	5½	6	6	6	6
Legends
1	Nebraska	14½	3	2	2	1½	1	1	2	1	1
2	Michigan	19	1	1	1	3½	2	2½	3	2	3
3	Michigan State	24	2	4	4	1½	4	2½	1	3	2
4	Northwestern	32½	4	3	3	3½	3	4	4	4	4
5	Iowa	47	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5
6	Minnesota	52	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6

Notes:

Lindy’s swapped Purdue/Illinois and Iowa/Minnesota in their division predictions — they had Iowa/Monnesota in Leaders and Purdue/Illinois in Legends. Since they predicted each pair of teams 5th/6th (in the wrong division), I counted that as a prediciton of 5th/6th in the proper one.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Michigan State and Nebraska for 1st-2nd place in the Big Ten Legends division.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Michigan and Northwestern for 3rd-4th place in the Big Ten Legends division.

USA Today predicted a tie between Illinois and Purdue for 5th-6th place in the Big Ten Leaders division.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Michigan and Michigan State for 2nd-3rd place in the Big Ten Legends division.

Big XII

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
1	Oklahoma State	14	1	1	1	2	3	1	1	2	2
2	Texas	17	3	3	2	1	1	2	3	1	1
3	Oklahoma	24½	2	2	3	3	3	3½	2	3	3
4	Texas Christian	37½	5	4	6	4	3	3½	4	4	4
5	Baylor	47½	4	6	4	5	6½	6	5	6	5
6	Kansas State	49	6	5	5	6	5	5	6	5	6
7	Texas Tech	69	8	7	7	7	8	8	8	7	9
8	West Virginia	73½	9	8	9	8	6½	10	7	9	7
9	Iowa State	75	7	9	8	9½	9½	7	9	8	8
10	Kansas	88	10	10	10	9½	9½	9	10	10	10

Notes:

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Iowa State and Kansas for 9th-10th place in the Big XII.

USA Today predicted a tie between Baylor and West Virginia for 6th-7th place in the Big XII.

USA Today predicted a tie between Iowa State and Kansas for 9th-10th place in the Big XII.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Oklahoma and Texas Christian for 3rd-4th place in the Big XII.

Conference USA

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
East
1	East Carolina	11½	1	2	1	2	1½	1	1	1	1
2	Marshall	20	3	1	3	1	1½	2½	2	2	4
3	Middle Tennessee	29	2	3	2	5	4	4	4	3	2
4	Southern Miss	40	5	5	4	3½	3	5½	3	6	5
5	UAB	41	4	4	5	3½	5½	7	5	4	3
6	Florida Atlantic	53½	6	6	6	6½	5½	5½	7	5	6
7	Florida Int’l	57	7	7	7	6½	7	2½	6	7	7
West
1	Tulsa	9	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Rice	20	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2
3	Louisiana Tech	32½	4	3	3	4½	3½	3½	2	5	4
4	Texas-El Paso	40	3	4	4	6	6	5	5	2	5
5	North Texas	41½	5	6	5	4½	3½	3½	4	4	6
6	Tulane	48	6	5	6	3	5	7	7	6	3
7	UTSA	61	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	7	7

Notes:

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Southern Mississippi and UAB for 3rd-4th place in CUSA East.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Florida Atlantic and Florida International for 6th-7th place in CUSA East.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Louisiana Tech and North Texas for 4th-5th place in CUSA West.

USA Today predicted a tie between East Carolina and Marshall for 1st-2nd place in CUSA East.

USA Today predicted a tie between Florida Atlantic and UAB for 5th-6th place in CUSA East.

USA Today predicted a tie between Louisiana Tech and North Texas for 3rd-4th place in CUSA West.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Florida International and Marshall for 2nd-3rd place in CUSA East.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Florida Atlantic and Southern Mississippi for 5th-6th place in CUSA East.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Louisiana Tech and North Texas for 3rd-4th place in CUSA West.

Mid-American

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
East
1	Bowling Green	13	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2
2	Ohio	16	1	2	3	2	1	2	2	2	1
3	Buffalo	29	2	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	4
4	Kent State	33	4	3	2	4	5	4	4	4	3
5	Miami-Ohio	45	6	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5
6	Akron	56	7	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	6
7	Massachusetts	60	5	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
West
1	Northern Illinois	9	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2t	Ball State	22½	2	2	3	3	3	2½	3	2	2
2t	Toledo	22½	3	3	2	2	2	2½	2	3	3
4	Western Michigan	37	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
5	Central Michigan	44	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5
6	Eastern Michigan	54	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Notes:

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Ball State and Toledo for 2nd-3rd place in the MAC West.

Mountain West

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
West
1	Fresno State	10	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
2	San Diego State	22	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	2	2
3	San Jose State	23½	2	2	3	3	4½	1	2	3	3
4	Nevada	36	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	4
5	Nevada-Las Vegas	48	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	4	5
6	Hawaii	49½	6	6	6	5	4½	5	5	6	6
Mountain
1	Boise State	10	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
2	Utah State	17	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2
3	Air Force	28½	3	3	3	3½	3	3	3	4	3
4	Wyoming	39½	4	4	4	5	5½	5	4	3	5
5	Colorado State	44	5	5	5	3½	5½	4	5	5	6
6	New Mexico	50	6	6	6	6	4	6	6	6	4

Notes:

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Air Force and Colorado State for 3rd-4th place in the MWC Mountain division.

USA Today predicted a tie between Hawai’i and San Jose State for 4th-5th place in the MWC West division.

USA Today predicted a tie between Colorado State and Wyoming for 5th-6th place in the MWC Mountain division.

Pacific 12

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
North
1	Oregon	11½	2	1	2	1	1½	1	1	1	1
2	Stanford	16½	1	2	1	2	1½	3	2	2	2
3	Oregon State	28½	4	3	3	3	3½	2	3	4	3
4	Washington	33½	3	4	4	4	3½	4	4	3	4
5	California	48	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	6
6	Washington State	51	6	6	6	5	5	6	6	6	5
South
1	Southern Cal	17½	2	2	4	1	2½	1	1	1	3
2	Arizona State	19½	3	1	2	2	2½	2	3	3	1
3	UCLA	21	1	3	1	3	1	3	5	2	2
4	Arizona	33½	4	4	3	4	4½	4	2	4	4
5	Utah	43½	5	5	5	5	4½	5	4	5	5
6	Colorado	54	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Notes:

USA Today predicted a tie between Oregon and Stanford for 1st-2nd place in the PAC 12 North.

USA Today predicted a tie between Oregon State and Washington for 3rd-4th place in the PAC 12 North.

USA Today predicted a tie between Arizona State and Southern Cal for 2nd-3rd place in the PAC 12 South.

USA Today predicted a tie between Arizona and Utah for 4th-5th place in the PAC 12 South.

Southeastern

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
East
1	Georgia	12	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	2
2	South Carolina	18	2	2	1	2½	2½	2	3	2	1
3	Florida	24	3	3	2	2½	2½	3	2	3	3
4	Vanderbilt	39½	4	4	4	5½	4	4	6	4	4
5	Tennessee	47½	5	5	5	4	5½	6	5	6	6
6	Missouri	48	6	6	6	5½	5½	5	4	5	5
7	Kentucky	63	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
West
1	Alabama	9	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Texas A&M	20½	2	2	2	2½	2	2	3	3	2
3	Louisiana State	24½	3	3	3	2½	3	3	2	2	3
4	Mississippi	36½	4	4	4	4	4½	4	4	4	4
5	Mississippi State	50	5	5	7	6½	4½	5	6	6	5
6	Arkansas	55½	6	7	5	5	6½	7	5	7	7
7	Auburn	56	7	6	6	6½	6½	6	7	5	6

Notes:

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Florida and South Carolina for 2nd-3rd place in the SEC East.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Missouri and Vanderbilt for 5th-6th place in the SEC East.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Louisiana State and Texas A&M for 2nd-3rd place in the SEC West.

Phil Steele predicted a tie between Auburn and Mississippi State for 6th-7th place in the SEC West.

USA Today predicted a tie between Florida and South Carolina for 2nd-3rd place in the SEC East.

USA Today predicted a tie between Missouri and Tenneessee for 5th-6th place in the SEC East.

USA Today predicted a tie between Mississippi and Mississippi State for 4th-5th place in the SEC West.

USA Today predicted a tie between Arkansas and Auburn for 6th-7th place in the SEC West.

Sun Belt

Rank	Team	Total Points	Lindy	Athlon	TSN	Phil Steele	USA Today (mag.)	McIllece Sports	F’Ball Out- siders	Arena Fanatic	Gold Sheet
1	Louisiana-Lafay.	17½	3	1	2	1	1	1½	3	2	3
2	Louisiana-Monroe	21½	1	2	3	3	4½	3	2	1	2
3	Arkansas State	25	2	4	4	3	4½	1½	1	4	1
4	Western Kentucky	28½	4	3	1	3	2½	4	4	3	4
5	Troy	42½	5	5	5	5	2½	5	5	5	5
6	Texas State	54½	6	6	6	6	6	6½	6	6	6
7	South Alabama	63½	7	7	7	7	7	6½	7	8	7
8	Georgia State	71	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	8

Notes:

Phil Steele predicted a three-way tie between Arkansas State, Louisiana-Monroe, and Western Kentucky, for 2nd-4th place in the Sun Belt.

USA Today predicted a tie between Troy and Western Kentucky for 2nd-3rd place in the Sun Belt.

USA Today predicted a tie between Arkansas State and Louisiana-Monroe for 4th-5th place in the Sun Belt.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between Arkansas State and Louisiana-Lafayette for 1st-2nd place in the Sun Belt.

McIllece Sports predicted a tie between South Alabama and Texas State for 6th-7th place in the Sun Belt.